On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:10 -0600, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > > Hi > > > > if I issue the ommand umask I get a value of 0022. I thought umask > > values were 022, what's the extra digit for? > > > > Thanks > > Dan > By convention, octal numbers have a leading zero. This is a > carry over from the C programming language. > > Bob > I am not sure that is true. There is a forth (the first on in the output) that refers to SUID, GUID and stcky bit, -- ======================================================================= Aliquid melius quam pessimum optimum non est. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx